Hogwarts: Becoming a god from reselling fresh food

Chapter 217 Come and taste the taste of despair

But Snape was faster than Murphy this time.

He only used a few ingredients, moved his lips, and muttered a few spells in a low voice. After a while, a pot of pitch-black potion appeared in his crucible.

It was like thick asphalt and ink. Strangely, when Snape poured the potion from the cauldron into the crystal bottle, not a drop of the potion flowed into the small crystal. in a bottle.

At this moment, it seems that the potion has changed from pitch black to some kind of gray but transparent color.

Before Murphy's third bottle of potion was refined, Snape placed the bottle of potion on Murphy's table.

"Come and taste despair."

Potion of Despair.

This is a recipe Snape learned when he was with Voldemort.

It can plunge people into deep despair, like living through the darkest moments of life.

This potion is extremely powerful, almost the most terrifying potion he knows, because it does not target the human body, but the spirit.

Previously, his life and death elixir was cracked by Murphy in a strange way. Snape suspected that it was not an antidote, but a means of diverting the harm caused by the potion to the body.

But this time, the effect of the Despair Potion cannot be transferred and can only be borne by the drinker himself.

No one can resist this despair, not even Dumbledore.

"despair?"

Murphy frowned. The materials Snape used just now were all hallucinogenic things. Could it be that he was using this method to create an illusion of despair?

He had indeed never seen this kind of magic potion.

So how to make an antidote?

Euphoria?

Euphoria can make people feel happy, and its effect is similar to Muggle stimulants, but the pleasure of elation is false, and it can also make people credulous of other people's orders. What if this is Snape's purpose?

After all, he has never seen his potion before. Judging from the hallucinogenic ingredients it uses, it should be able to cause hallucinations. If it is combined with the joy potion, it will be a question of whether his head will still be under his control. .

After thinking about it, Murphy finally gave up on making the antidote.

Speaking of which, something similar seems to have appeared in the original work. It was the potion used by Voldemort to protect his Horcrux - the Slytherin Pendant. Even Dumbledore didn't know how to crack the potion. At this moment, he It's probably impossible to get rid of it within ten minutes.

With a wave of his wand, he summoned the same materials that Snape had used just now, and added them to the beaker in the same steps and order as him.

Snape frowned, what did he want to do?

Replica of the Potion of Despair?

But he didn't know the spell at all, so it was impossible to successfully recreate it.

However, he saw Murphy bringing six different magic testers and placing them next to the bottle of despair potion. Then he fixed a stand next to the beaker and also placed six magic testers.

Then, while observing the six magic testers next to the beaker, he used his wand to stir the magic potion in the air.

"Tom, what is Professor Murphy doing?" In the audience, Harry couldn't understand.

"The teacher seems to be monitoring the changes in the magic properties of the potion..." Hermione said. Through the wand experiment, she was already familiar with the magic tester. Murphy often used it to test the distribution of magic properties.

"Does the teacher want to replicate the potion by controlling its magical properties?" Tom suddenly said.

The dimensional theory of magic was originally used to decompose and understand spells. Different spells have different magic properties. Spells with the same magic properties have basically the same effect. If the essence of magic potions and spells are similar, then using It has the same magical properties, which may allow the potion to have the same effect.

Just, "Why reproduce this potion?"

While observing the changes in the magic tester, Murphy carefully poured different basic spells into the beaker to add different magic properties into the potion.

At the same time, he recalled Snape's lip movements when making the potion, used a comprehensive recall on himself, and dug out the subtle sounds that he had heard before but had not been noticed and analyzed by his brain, and found Snape's words in them. The sound of Nep chanting a curse.

"Cinis animae, putrida vota, irrita desideria, amor et separatio, indignatio et ira, ad imum barathrum descendunt et in lutum nigerrimum convertunt..."

He chanted the mantra.

The solution in the beaker gradually turned into a sludge-like black, and then turned into an ash-like gray.

Snape looked at this scene in astonishment. He actually succeeded in recreating it!

Although it doesn't look perfect, he just watched himself make it once!

How did he do it?

And how did he know the spell?

At this time, Murphy poured out the third potion that had been brewed in another beaker, mixed it with the potion of despair, and put it into a crystal bottle.

Then, he picked up the bottle of Despair Potion that Snape had placed on his desk, touched the two bottles of potion, and placed the bottle he made on Snape's desk.

"Come and taste despair," he said.

He looked at Snape, his eyes half provocative, half teasing, but also filled with a kind of heart-stopping determination.

This sentence is exactly the same as what Snape said before.

"Professor Snape, I'll do it first as a courtesy."

After Murphy finished speaking, he drank the bottle of potion in one gulp.

Then he closed his eyes.

Tom understood, "That bottle of potion had no solution, so the teacher made a bottle of the same potion and asked Snape to drink it. In this way, the two of them would compete to see who had the stronger ability to resist the potion."

Snape looked at the bottle of potion on his table and frowned.

Murphy's preparation of the despair potion was not perfect, but he added another potion - judging from the observations just now, it should be a "memory potion".

Potion of Despair plus Remembrance Potion.

Snape could probably guess what he would face if he drank it.

He looked at Murphy, wasn't this guy afraid?

Were there not moments of regret and despair in his life?

As long as there has been such a moment, the despair potion can amplify it several times and dozens of times, causing people to fall into unparalleled pain, just like driving people into an abyss and taking away all their strength to escape, causing them to sink. Until my heart is as gray as death.

How dare he?

"Professor, you can wait for the ten minutes to end before drinking this potion." Professor Sprout reminded, "If Professor Murphy falls down or loses consciousness during this period, you will win the bet."

As a colleague for many years and also the dean, although Professor Sprout did not like Snape's character, she still hoped that he would win more than Murphy.

But Snape gave her a blank look.

Yes, that's the smartest way.

But... the look in Murphy's eyes before he drank the potion stung him like a needle.

What was he laughing at?

Do you think I dare not?

Afraid to face those terrible memories?

Afraid to face your own weaknesses?

Don't dare to face...Lily?

Ah, yes, I have always been a coward...

I dare not say I like it because I am afraid of rejection.

I don't dare to get close because I'm afraid of being isolated.

I huddled in my corner, thinking that as long as I mastered more spells and climbed to a higher position, I could be worthy of her.